On Thursday 11 March 2004 23:57, Ulrich Leopold wrote:
Hi,
I am currently running into boot problems with an external hard disk.
I put it into /etc/fstab. But when it is not attached to the computer at start up Linux complains about it and won't boot. All I can do then is log in as root, mount the system manually, delete the fstab entries and reboot. Then it's fine.
But how do the exact fstab entries need to look like to not include the external hard disk into all teh boot proceses?
It's ext3 with 4 primary partitions.
Ulrich
Here is one that I have (also ext3 on a scsi drive). Its not mounted at boot time, but I sometimes attach it before or after I boot. (Its a firewire drive): /dev/sdb1 /firedisk reiserfs noauto,user,sync,exec 0 0 The noauto says don't mount it automatically, the user bit says users can mount it. I have a desktop icon that mounts it. Suse builds this icon for you, or use KDiskfree (kdf is its actual name) to mount it by right clicking its icon. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen